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From Regency Dukes to Zombie Romance: Robyn DeHart's 90-Title Career Pivot (opens the original)
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Robyn DeHart — national award-winning, bestselling author of historical romance (Regency & Victorian) and contemporary insta-love novellas published as Kat Baxter. 90+ titles and counting. WHAT WE COVER: ● How a Scholastic book fair box (ordered just for her) launched a lifetime of reading — and eventually writing ● The internship that gave her college credit for working with romance legend Pamela Morrissey ● Why her sociology degree is secretly the secret ingredient in every character she creat
From 3-Million-Reader Magazine Editor to Harlequin Romance Novelist: Kandy Shepherd's Second Act (opens the original)
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Kandy Shepherd is a bestselling, award-winning Australian author with twenty-five novels published by Harlequin Mills & Boon — and a career backstory most romance readers don’t know. Before she wrote love stories, she ran some of Australia’s biggest magazines, including a publication with over three million readers. The skills she built in that world — economy of language, rock-solid deadlines, knowing which detail makes a reader stop — turned out to be exactly what Harlequin romance required. T
Marshals, Spies & Jack Ryan: Marc Cameron on Writing What He Knows (opens the original)
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Former US Marshal. New York Times bestselling author. The man who wrote seven Tom Clancy Jack Ryan novels. This week, Samantha Tennant sits down with Marc Cameron for one of the most entertaining and illuminating conversations we’ve had on the Fresh Fiction Video Book Club. Marc is the author of the Jericho Quinn series (think global black ops, motorcycles, and a protagonist with a samurai sword), the Arliss Cutter series (an Alaska-based marshal whose cases draw heavily from Marc’s own career),
NYT Bestseller Michelle M. Pillow on Why Romantasy Was Her Genre Before It Had a Name (opens the original)
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What if you’d written the perfect romantasy decades before the genre had a name — and it was only now getting the audience it deserved? That’s exactly where Michelle M. Pillow finds herself with the Tor Bramble re-release of The King of the Unblessed, Book 1 of the Realm Immortal series. NYT and USA Today bestselling author of more than 100 books, Michelle sits down with Fresh Fiction host Samantha Tennant for a wide-ranging conversation that covers everything from Goblin Kings to Viking world-b
Cathy Maxwell on Trusting Readers, Losing the Gatekeepers, and Writing Her Own Rules (opens the original)
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Historical romance icon Cathy Maxwell, author of more than forty novels, joins Samantha Tennant to talk about the biggest leap of her career: going indie for the first time with CURVES FOR THE RAKISH DUKE, her contribution to the collaborative Busty Bodice Club series. Cathy shares what surprised her most about indie publishing (hint: it’s the readers), why direct feedback from fans feels like a gift instead of criticism, and how creative control is changing the way she thinks about her backlist
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